Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well I know that you are an Emacs user and that you are accustomed to have > an application that behaves differently than any other application.
Last time I looked, emacs was still widely used. For some reason, it hasn't died even after 10 years of KDE and Gnome. Maybe people use it because they like it? Shock horror! > But LyX target market is users coming from a Mac/Windows world and familiar > with a wordprocessor. Where on earth do you get that statement from? > For these users, having multiple clipboards is very weird. These people have already coped with the paradigm shift that they should help the computer to do the typesetting for them. Treat them as intelligent beings. > Also, hiding the selection clipboard is what KDE and Gnome do. > Uniformity is maybe boring but it is good for users. Victor Hugo used to bemoan the destruction of his medieval, gothic Paris and it's replacement with the dull uniformity of Haussmann boulevards. He certainly didn't believe that uniformity was good for users. Angus
